Gerson von Bleichröder

Biography

Gerson von Bleichröder (22 December 1822 – 18 February 1893) was a Jewish German banker and close confidant of Otto von Bismarck. He served as Bismarck's financial agent, especially when the Prussian king required financial independence from the United Prussian Diet during the critical period of German unification. He became the second non-converted Jew in Prussia to be granted a hereditary title of nobility.